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Learning to slow down and enjoy cruising By Laura Landis I’ll never make up the 18 years I spent too far from the sea. I …
Learning to slow down and enjoy cruising By Laura Landis I’ll never make up the 18 years I spent too far from the sea. I …
Planning and sailing a charter boat in the Dodecanese Islands By Van Diehl Fulfilling a lifelong dream of sailing to faraway destinations, my wife, Cida, …
[x_blockquote type=”left”]Cruising New York’s Finger Lakes and canals[/x_blockquote] By Rodger Litchfield Rather than the usual weekend rendezvous at one port, William Herrick, the District 6 …
[x_blockquote type=”left”]The joys—and snags—of a river boat charter[/x_blockquote] By Dave Davies In recent years, my wife, Jo, and I have taken several powerboat charters in …
Sailors circumnavigate Wisconsin’s Door Peninsula By Janelle Peotter After months of planning, anticipation and a little trepidation, Eric Perlman and I set out on our …
[x_blockquote type=”left”]Using USPS know-how, a couple takes the cruise of a lifetime[/x_blockquote] By Mike Kondrat My wife Chris and I had dreamed about cruising north …
Transiting the Panama Canal details the story of one sailor and her husband who fulfill a long-awaited dream of transiting one of the greatest engineering feats of the 20th century, the Panama Canal. The elaborate two-day process required hiring line handlers and pilots and securing the necessary permits.
By Greg Allen From the moment I shut off the diesel on our chartered 39 Beneteau Oceanis and watched the sails fill with the fresh …
By Jana Smith One summer, my dive buddy and I took a trip across Lake Michigan on the SS Badger, the last and only coal-fired …
By Larry MacDonald & Fern Magnus-Brown We don’t recommend sailing solo through the Broughtons. The numerous tidal currents, half-submerged logs, kelp beds and isolated rocks …
By Linda Mangelsdorf While looking at a map of Corps-maintained waterways in an Army Corps of Engineers office, Fred Mangelsdorf discovered a short black line …
By Larry MacDonald My wife, Sandy, and I are both avid sailors, though for many years we didn’t actually own a boat. To get our …